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16:9: 2020 NBA Title Ring Virtualized and Sold as Crypto Token, Based on PORTL’s Transparent LCD

I’m putting out there, immediately, that I understand maybe half of the following, as it has something or other to do with crypto-currencies and memorabilia. The LA start-up PORTL, which does a very clever of making transparent LCD look like three-dimensional hologram displays, has announced it has created the “world’s first volumetric pro sports memorabilia non-fungible token, or NFT. […]

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Mon, May 24, 2021 at 10:00 AM

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16:9: VSBLTY, Onyx Glass Partner On Idea Of Cooler As A Service For Digital Chiller Door Screens

The screens as grocery and c-store chiller doors thing has been around perhaps as long as a decade, and while marketplace adoption seems pretty limited to date, there are still companies getting into the concept and adding their own ideas on a special sauce, like AI. […]

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Fri, May 7, 2021 at 9:44 AM

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16:9: PORTL Puts Swiss Timepiece Execs At Shanghai Trade Show, Without Leaving Alps

I’m a big fan of what PORTL is doing with its remote display system, for use-cases like new luxury watch launches and demos done by a Swiss firm for a recent trade show many time zones away in Shanghai. The timepiece firm IWC used PORTL’s display and software system to have its CEO and rock star watchmaker present and interact with buyers in real-time at a show called Watches and Wonders. […]

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Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 12:30 PM

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16:9: PORTL Closes $3M Raise, First COO; Reports 100 Hologram-ish Units Sold

The LA startup that uses a highly optimized transparent LCD displays and enclosures to create life-sized, hologram-ish visual effects has completed a new $3 million fundraising round that will be used, in part, to devlop a small desktop version for content creators. […]

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Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 8:15 AM

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16:9: In-Store Media Start-up Cooler Screens Closes $80M Series C Funding; Expanding Footprint

Chicago-based in-store digital start-up Cooler Screens has closed a $80 million Series C funding round intended to expand the footprint of its product, which to their ever-lasting credit actually aligns with its name. The company does LCD displays in cooler doors in chain grocery and drug stores. […]

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Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 11:10 PM

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16:9: LA’s PORTL Marketing Real-Time Kinda-Sorta Hologram Projection Screen Tech

An LA start-up called PORTL is marketing what it calls the world’s only completely self-contained life-sized, single-passenger, 4K resolution hologram projection machine. […]

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Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 11:03 AM

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Transparent And High-Bright LCDs Paired To Create 3D-ish Display

Transparent LCD has been around for years now, but UK-based Crystal Display Systems has put a different spin on their use by marrying a transparent screen with a regular light-backed LCD in the same display case. […]

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Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 8:05 AM

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UK’s CDS Demos Transparent LCD-Regular LCD 3D Mash-Up

I’ve seen lots of transparent LCDs and no end of mostly crappy glasses-free 3D displays (though the 3D I saw at ISE was quite good), but I’ve not seen a take on three-dimension digital displays that mashed a transparent screen with a regular panel at the back. […]

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Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:13 AM

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Anthony, Real Digital Media Pair Up On New Transparent Display Doors

Another set of companies has entered the competition to win the eyeballs, hearts and budgets of grocers, convenience store operators and consumer brands with connected, transparent LCD displays embedded in cooler and freezer doors. […]

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Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 8:28 AM

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